UA Researchers

Note: This database is a list of faculty who welcome undergraduate students into their research projects. It is up to faculty to keep this list updated.
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Students may also search for research positions, events, and opportunities in Handshake.

Faculty Members: For more information on updating your information in the faculty database please visit ur.arizona.edu/update. For help listing active undergraduate research opportunities in Handshake, contact Kelley Merriam-Castro at kmerriam@arizona.edu.
Name Department Offering Research Opportunities? Types of Opportunities Prereqssort descending Research Location End Date
Mohammad Pessarakli
The School of Plant Sciences
Yes
For Credit
N/A
Tucson off-campus
Alonso Favela
The School of Plant Sciences
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
No Mandatory prerequisites. Preference will be given to those with some Excel, sheets, or computational experience. Check out the website for more info: favelalab.com
Tucson main campus
Rebecca Vanderpool
Medicine
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
No prerequisites are necessary but knowledge of the cardiovascular systems and physiology is helpful. Experience with computer programming and statistics (working with Matlab and R) is also helpful but not necessary.
Tucson main campus
Laura Lopez Hoffman
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Yes
Paid
None
Tucson main campus
Robert Downs
Geosciences
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
William Killgore
Psychiatry
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Luisa Ikner
Environmental Science
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Murat Kacira
Biosystems Engineering
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson off-campus
Armin Sorooshian
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Koen Visscher
Physics
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Gayatri Vedantam
Animal and Biomedical Sciences
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Minkyu Kim
Materials Science and Engineering
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Anthony Jull
Geosciences
Yes
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Dongkyun Kang
Wyant College of Optical Sciences
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Beth Willman
Steward Observatory
Yes
Paid
None
Tucson main campus
Paloma Beamer
Public Health Administration
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Craig Aspinwall
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Daniel Apai
Steward Observatory
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Suchol Savagatrup
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Kelly Bright
Environmental Science
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
None
Tucson off-campus
Jeong-Yeol Yoon
Biomedical Engineering
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Dmitriy Nurullayev
College of Applied Science and Technology
Yes
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Kirsten Limesand
Graduate College Administration
Yes
Volunteer
None
Tucson main campus
Jia Hu
The School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Yes
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus
Michael Riehle
Entomology
Yes
Paid
Volunteer
For Credit
None
Tucson main campus